 Hey, everybody welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for data center and telecom professionals I'm Jamie Scott Okita of JSA and we are live on the floor of ITW 2022 This is so incredible 15th year anniversary of ITW the room is hopping We're back live and in person and joining me today is Craig drink All the director of products and sales engineering over at horizon welcome Craig Thank you very much for having me. It's an honor. It's an honor and horizon has been breaking all sorts of news So much expansion going on but before we get to it Can we set the table a little bit and tell our viewers who may not already know a little bit about horizon? Sure horizon is a fiber-based data and internet service provider out of Columbus, Ohio And we serve Southeast Ohio all the way from Dayton to Steubenville, Ohio And we also serve a little bit into West Virginia and Indianapolis too When we sell data products and internet access and voice communications to serve enterprises and carrier customers Absolutely and again you are breaking all these headlines We're excited about all the news you guys have been rolling out Especially on major expansions to your pure fiber optic network in the Midwest So can you tell us a little bit about your recent announcements Your fiber to the home in nine new Ohio market Yes, it's very exciting. Obviously having fiber broadband connectivity to home is very important So we're developing those networks too to help people to do work from home or to get better education opportunities And when we build those fiber networks, it's also good for our other business customers and our carrier customers too So the network just increases density and provides service to everybody So well said so well said and continuing on your expansion run here Last year Horizon acquired Infinity Network, a pipeline from Indianapolis over to South Bend A really interesting route there. Can you tell us a little bit more about this acquisition Sure, it's a unique fiber route between Indianapolis and South Bend, Indiana And it actually extends all the way over to Chicago to the CERMAC internet hub And it's a 95% varied network so it's a lot more safer and it's a completely diverse network From most other carriers who go sort of a western route between Indianapolis and Chicago So it's very interesting. We got some customers with that network So we'll be taking care of them, but we're also going to light the network ourselves too With some very exciting dense wave division multiplexing networks And the newest speeds available like 400, 600 and 800 gigs So that's the top end of the spectrum for high-end needs We're very excited about that Oh, I just love that, the diversity, the security of that route DWDM, awesome awesome Tell us, in addition to the extended geographic reach You've been really building up your portfolio of services Particularly your VoiceConnect product. Can you tell us a little bit more? Sure, sure. Many of our customers, in addition to wanting data networks They said I buy all of my needs at the same time and voices It's still a product that people want to use, but they want to use it in a cloud In a unified communications manner So a couple of years ago we launched our unified communications product called VoiceConnect To help people do all the things they need to do Just that's the pandemic head It was very useful for people, we launched soft clients So they could work from home and be mobile And we added instant messaging and collaboration tools And this year we're going to continue to add to the product too With fact services and other services like business text messaging Even though it sounds all basic, everybody wants to do it And it helps deepen our relationships with the customers to solve their needs Yeah, you're really just solving right to the very desktop end of it, if you will Yes, just love it, love it Where can our viewers go who want to learn more? Our website of course is horizonconnects.com A special section called Business Fiber Solutions To be able to find out more about the data networks or the new cities we go to Or all of our products Just love that, horizonconnectswithanass.com Craig, thank you so much for your time Taking out a little bit of time here on your busy ITW day Appreciate you You're very welcome, thank you too And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcast As always, think green guys and happy networking